Definitive List of Airports w/o Pre✓ Lanes for Int'l Arrivals w/ Domestic Connections
Apr 24, 2017, 11:17 pm
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Definitive List of Airports w/o Pre✓ Lanes for Int'l Arrivals w/ Domestic Connections
The thread on the divergent ways airports handle GE passengers made me start thinking about the lack of precheck for domestic connections in some airports. Do we have a definitive list on these airports? If you want to get through precheck, is it better to just exit the sterile area and then go through precheck security lane? Where are these airports and what are the logistics involved? Thanks!
May 3, 2017, 8:25 am
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May 3, 2017, 9:01 am
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If you are in sterile area, you would not have go thru security check.
What the OP is asking is when I exit customs, is it better to go thru the nearest checkpoint (without PreCheck) or go find one with PreCheck.
What the OP is asking is when I exit customs, is it better to go thru the nearest checkpoint (without PreCheck) or go find one with PreCheck.
May 3, 2017, 10:18 pm
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For IAH after the customs exit, including GE users, before exiting the int'l arrivals hall, there are baggage recheck desks and the entrance to a checkpoint that only those coming off int'l flights normally have access too. As far as I know this one does not have full pre-check.
However, one can exit the int'l arrivals room, walk to the left, take the escalator upstairs and have pre-check at the main terminal E checkpoint (or take the pre-security subway train to terms A, B, or C that all have pre-check)
However, one can exit the int'l arrivals room, walk to the left, take the escalator upstairs and have pre-check at the main terminal E checkpoint (or take the pre-security subway train to terms A, B, or C that all have pre-check)
May 3, 2017, 10:43 pm
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Not intending to be flippant, serious question: would it be shorter to list the US airports that *do* have a PreCheck lane in a dedicated international-to-domestic screening area? All of the ones I'm familiar with do not, but that's only a small subset of all the US airports with international arrivals so I honestly don't know 
Maybe the thing to do is have a wiki listing how to get to the closest PreCheck lane. Although the airline-specific forums typically have a thread about connections and MCT for their respective hubs so it could go there too.
Maybe the thing to do is have a wiki listing how to get to the closest PreCheck lane. Although the airline-specific forums typically have a thread about connections and MCT for their respective hubs so it could go there too.
May 6, 2017, 6:58 pm
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One can't be in a sterile area with luggage. I think you're confusing the fact you can clear right after customs without going to the main checkpoint. Most major airports have a checkpoint after customs to dump passengers back into secure area.
May 8, 2017, 9:15 pm
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ATL E Concourse (which is meant only for connecting passengers as it will only feed into the sterile area) lacks a PreCheck line. It can often be faster to walk to F and clear FIS and Pre there than wait in the very long lines for TSA at E.
May 11, 2017, 1:12 pm
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May 15, 2017, 7:25 pm
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IAD midfield is an example of one of these "traps". If you have checked bags and are connecting, you have to go through immigration/baggage claim/customs midfield, and then you end up in a corridor that exits only into a TSA screening checkpoint (no way to get properly landside, but you're not sterile either - the only way out is via sterile). In the past they didn't have precheck there, although that's apparently changed in the last year.
SFO int'l arrivals dump you one floor below checkin and security checkpoints, you're essentially free to go wherever, and most checkpoints there have Pre. EWR is similar, except most departures are in the next terminal so you take a landside train over.
SFO int'l arrivals dump you one floor below checkin and security checkpoints, you're essentially free to go wherever, and most checkpoints there have Pre. EWR is similar, except most departures are in the next terminal so you take a landside train over.